Cheer up — things really are as bad as you think
So, it’s up to local communities around the world to save themselves. Three new books will inspire you to join the effort while helping you achieve the calm and cool mind you’ll need to succeed.
Act: Inspiration
Building resilience in Vermont & measuring the right stuff
Noelle MacKay, Liz Schlegel, and Jon Erickson on building resilience in Vermont…
Cities–too big to fail?
This post is a follow-up to last week’s post about our dialogue about big cities and descent.
deconstructing the beast
We like to think, as Transitioners, we are classless, but we are not…We are constructed socially to fit into tiers. No matter what class we are born into, there are always people above us and people below us. And every transaction we make or thought we have is tempered by our conditioning: to keep ourselves on that rung, or climb the ladder, and for that we have to push others down. Them, Her, that district, those people.
The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – A long term view
Recently I been seeing something with my own eyes I haven’t seen for thirty years, other than on a television – gas lines.
Is social entrepreneurship the rich saving the poor?
Social entrepreneurship, if done properly, creates, fosters, and grows communities with new opportunities which were never within their reach before.
Totnes economic blueprint: The first reports are now available
Our aim was to see if we could estimate the potential value of a new kind of local economy…
“Rapid and deep emissions reductions may not be easy, but 4°C to 6°C will be much worse”
It’s a future about sufficiency more than it is about greed and wants…
Ten low-tech responses to storms and emergencies
We live in a world dependent on electricity and we forget that being dependent on something — however wonderful that thing is — makes you vulnerable.
Our time has come: Food Sovereignty Now!
My name is Henry Saragih. I am the chairperson of Serikat Petani Indonesia, a mass organization consisting of small-holder farmers, landless, indigenous peoples and also women peasants and youth all across Indonesia.
Transition Town Fujino goes for local energy independence
Working to build resilience in the face of climate change and peak oil, the Transition approach can be particularly instructive in demonstrating how to accomplish this shift using bottom-up rather than top-down methods (the top-down approach has been characteristic of most Japanese eco-towns).
Walk this way
We all know that walking is good for us. It sheds calories, tones muscles, and clears our minds. But taking a regular walk is also important to our understanding that we share a common life with others–the psychic foundation of the commons.
